College of Professional Studies News

Qichen Yang, one of the students of the ICM program who graduated this May, filmed and edited video material to create a documentary series about the students' trip to China. These videos give insight into the students' experiences and impressions of culture and society in Beijing and Sanya.

Tapping the entrepreneurial spirit at St. John’s, the College of Professional Studies (CPS) launched its first Pitch Johnny Competition, allowing students to pitch their business ideas to industry professionals and compete for a grand prize.

Amanda Marie Ferrandino gave St. John’s Staten Island campus its first news “station” by launching The Bolt Productions, an online hub for podcasts and other media that students produce in the University’s Communication Arts Audio Lab.

Before joining the Marine Corps, David Bierwirth felt his life lacked direction. Today, the Homeland Security major at St. John’s University views his service as a life-changing experience that shaped the person he has become.

On the occasion of the Women’s Entrepreneurship week, on Tuesday, October 17, the College of Professional Studies (CPS) hosted an entrepreneurship industry panel entitled, “Changing the Game: Women Who Play to WIN” in the recently renovated CPS Multipurpose Room.

Students from the College of Professional Studies saw how Google Tools can help journalists find stories, check facts and mine data at a September 14 presentation on the St. John's Queens campus.
About 80 students filled the meeting space next to the Marillac cafeteria as Victoria Reitano, a certified Google News Lab trainer, used PowerPoint slides and videos in a two-hour presentation called Google Tools To Train for News Gathering and Storytelling.

Graduate students from the M.S. in International Communication attended the International Council for Small Business 2017 Academy in Buenos Aires, Argentina and competed in their business idea pitch competition.